DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HarperDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HarperDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.harperdb.io

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

HarperDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

2020

1987

Current release

3.1, August 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Node.js

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes, using LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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